Moon Music by Coldplay
Coldplay's 2024 album, a soft and hopeful companion to their earlier work, reaching for warmth and unity.
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Alternative Rock
Alternative rock grew out of the underground music of the 1980s and broke through in the 1990s. It favours melody and texture over polish, and often carries an introspective, searching mood.
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Songs of Surrender by U2
U2's 2023 album re-records forty songs from across their catalogue in stripped, acoustic, reflective form.
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Music of the Spheres by Coldplay
Coldplay's bright 2021 concept album, a glossy pop journey through an imagined solar system, anchored by My Universe.
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Interrobang by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's restless 2021 album, a record of questions and conviction, sharp guitars and honest doubt held together by hope.
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Everyday Life by Coldplay
Coldplay's 2019 double album wanders far from arena pop into gospel, protest, and prayer for ordinary days.
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Native Tongue by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2019 alternative rock record is a plea to choose love as the first language we speak to one another.
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Songs of Experience by U2
U2's 2017 album reads like a set of letters to the people they love, an older band looking back with hard-won warmth.
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Pop by U2
U2's 1997 dance-rock experiment, a restless record about faith and emptiness that I found long after its release.
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Where the Light Shines Through by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2016 album turns scars into windows, a bright alternative rock record about light breaking through the broken places.
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A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay
Coldplay's joyful 2015 album, a bright farewell of sorts that I discovered well after its release.
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Between the Stars by Flyleaf
Flyleaf return in 2014 with Between the Stars, a melodic alternative rock record marking a new chapter and singer, full of fire and resolve.
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Songs of Innocence by U2
U2 look back to their youth on the 2014 album Songs of Innocence, a record of first loves, lost friends, and the music that shaped them.
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Ghost Stories by Coldplay
Coldplay's quiet, wounded 2014 album, a record of loss I returned to and heard with fresh ears.
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Fading West by Switchfoot
Switchfoot pair surf-film images with rock songs about purpose on their 2014 record Fading West, a search for life beyond the routine.
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New Horizons by Flyleaf
Flyleaf's 2012 New Horizons is a heavy, hopeful album, the last with Lacey Sturm, full of fire and farewell.
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Zooropa by U2
U2's experimental 1993 record trades stadium rock for electronic textures, a strange and rewarding album I found years later.
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Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay
Coldplay's bright, restless 2011 concept album, a record I came to late and found bolder than its reputation.
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Vice Verses by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2011 rock album holds doubt and faith side by side, restless songs about living with both at once.
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The Unforgettable Fire by U2
U2's atmospheric 1984 album, the record where they reached past anthems toward something stranger, found by me much later.
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Memento Mori by Flyleaf
Flyleaf's 2009 second album is heavier and more ambitious, a loud meditation on death, dreams, and grace.
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Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2009 record is a lean rock album about holding firm in the storm, fierce in sound and steady in hope.
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No Line on the Horizon by U2
U2's 2009 album is their most experimental in years, restless rock searching for the line where sky meets sea.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2
U2's warm 2000 return to song and heart, an album I revisited and found wiser than I remembered.
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Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay
Coldplay's 2008 album reaches for bold colour and history, a bright, restless record about power, doubt and time.
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Boy by U2
U2's 1980 debut catches four young men finding their sound, a raw, ringing record about growing up.
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